During the 6 Music interview, Walker also recalled several phone calls he had with the late David Bowie. “Every time I spoke to him he was very nice to me. He always was on my side,” Walker said. “He would recommend people to listen to my records. He was really generous when it came to me and always was interested in what I was doing.”

Walker continued: “It’s funny, every time I spoke to him on the phone, he’d say, ‘Here I am overlooking the park. It’s sort of snowing, it looks lovely.’ You know, he’d describe where he was. And I thought, ‘I’m sitting in the flat here,’ you know, wherever I was. But I always remember that about him. But [his death] was such a shock to all of us.”